Well... here we are at chapter four! Remember that big Rollisi moment I was talking about last chapter? It may or may not be happening in the chapter. ;) I would like to apologize for the sudden lack of updates. I've been busy with fundraisers for my school's dance squad (Yes, I'm a dancer, and I cheer at football games) and getting ready for vacation coming up soon. I'm leaving for vacation THIS SATURDAY, the 23rd, and coming back on the 30th, So there won't be any updates until then. Then, the week after, I start dance practice again on the 8th, and then I go back to school the next week on August 15th (Freshman year, ya :/), so updates won't be as frequent. Dick Wolf owns SVU and his characters and I own... this account. :P See you guys at the end!
"I think it's a very simple explanation here," John Buchanan tried to explain to Fin and Olivia. "This Jamie Young girl and Richard were in his apartment and had... a little too much too drink." Richard nodded along with his plan. "Things obviously went too far, Richard's daughter caught them, and Jamie wants to cry rape because she doesn't want her boyfriend to think she cheated on him."
Olivia scoffed in annoyance. John Buchanan has used this same trick hundreds of times, and it really pissed her off everytime he used that card. Unfortunately, sometimes that game worked, and the rapist got off scot-free. In this case, however, there's a chance it might or might not work. She prayed that it wouldn't work.
"Okay," Olivia replied. "Even if that's so, how are you going to explain what you did to your daughter? You slit her wrist open! You could have killed her!"
John faced his palms upward. "What are you talking about? She has depression; she's bipolar! She thinks if she slits her wrist, someone will pay attention to her!"
"Oh my gosh, you people are rediculous." Olivia mumbled under her breath. "Delaney has never physically harmed herself before in any way. The doctor even proved it! Why would she start now?"
John chuckled. "Lieutentant, I think you might have just answered your own question."
Fin bawled his fists together while at the same time came a knocked at the door. Olivia went to open it and found Barba standing on the other side.
"Hello again, Lieutentant," He greeted Olivia formally. He turned to John. "Buchanan,"
"Barba," John replied smug. "I guess your here to start waving deals in my clients face."
"No, I just thought I'd come here for the fun of it." Barba replied sarcastically. Both Fin and Olivia took notice of the tension between Barba and Buchanan. It was almost too obviously the two didn't like eachother.
Olivia's phone buzzed in her pocket. She stepped out of the interrigation room for a moment to answer it. "Benson," She said when she opened the call. She paused for a moment to listen to the other caller. "Uh-huh. Okay, I'll meet you there momentarily." She hung up the phone.
She stepped back into the interrigation room as all four men looked at her. "I just got a call from Rollins. Delaney just got bandaged up and is ready to talk. Fin, you got this?"
"Yeah, I got this." Fin replied smoothly.
Richard stood up. "Wait a minute, you can't talk to my daughter without me being there!"
John placed his hand on Richard's shoulder. "Sit back down, Mr. Rosenberry. Everything will be fine. I'm sure Delaney will come to her sense's and tell what really happened." Reluctantly, Richard sat back down at his laywers command.
Olivia bit her bottom lip with her top set of teeth. "Also, Jamie Young is getting realeased from the hospital soon, so you might want to get ready to do a line-up." She told Richard. She walked back out of the interrigation room and slammed the door shut with anger. 'So much for a slow day!' She thought.
Olivia made it to the fourth floor of the hospital where they were holding Delaney. She hated that she had to meet her like this, but it's better to met her alive in the hospital, or to see dead in the morgue. She walked into the waiting room to meet with Amanda and Carisi. She stopped when she noticed something a bit off.
Carisi was sitting in one of the chairs, leaning over with his head resting in his palms. Amanda was sitting on the left of him, her arm rapped around his shoulder as her head dug into his neck. Olivia raised her eyebrow at the sight of her Detectives affection.
"Hey," Olivia said as her two Detectives stood up. "Are we ready to talk to Delaney?"
"Um yes, the nurse said that she might be a little drowsy from the blood loss, but she should be fine." Carisi explained.
"Alright, let's go in." Olivia commanded the two.
The three officers walked a short way down the hall to room 13 where Delaney was. Olivia wondered about the girl she was about to meet. Of course, she has meet many broken girls in her lifetime who were from abusers homes, emotionally scared. For her, it should've been something she was used to by now, but for some reason, this girl felt different. In her mind, there was more to this girl that what she was giving them.
As they made it down to her room, Carisi knocked on the big, brown door that closed them off the hospital room. "Delaney, it's me, Detective Carisi..." He paused.
"Come in!" They heard Delaney muffle through the door. Carisi turned the handle down and gentally and opened the door to the room. Carisi and Amanda walked in first to give Delaney a familiar face to look at.
As Olivia came in last, she looked at Delaney, and a sudden feeling came over her. Her heart nearly broke as she looked at the young girl in the hospital bed. Her body was covered in bruises, caused from who knows what. Her right cheek had a red mark on it from where her father's palm unfaithfully greeted it. Her wrists had been covered with the bandges, thankfully covered the awful cuts. Her big, chocolate brown eyes were calm and relaxed, unlike her picture where her eyes were sad and lifeless. She was hooked up to an IV line where nurses had been checking her vitals every so often.
"Hey Delaney," Amanda spoke kindly. "How are you feeling?"
Delaney shrugged. "I mean, considering that I almost died from blood loss, I'd say I'm doing pretty good." She rubbed a sore spot on her arm. "The blood transfusion kinda hurt, though." She had no idea that it was Carisi who donated his own blood to her.
Carisi slightly chuckled at the young girls awkwardness. He liked seeing this side of her. She wasn't tense or nervous like she had been before. She was acting... almost completly normal. "Well," Carisi gestered towards Olivia. "Delaney, this is Lieutenant Benson of the Special Victims Unit."
"Hello Delaney," Olivia greeted, smiling. "We're here to ask you a couple questions."
Delaney looked confused. "But, isn't the Special Victims Unit for people who have been raped?"
Olivia nodded. "That is mostly true, but we don't just investigate rape cases. We investigate missing people, murders, abductions, child abuse-"
Amanda interupted. "We are, however, may be possibly be investigating a rape case and a child abuse case, and that's why we need to ask you some questions."
"But, I wasn't raped, I've never been sexually assulted." Delaney explained.
"It might not have been sexually abuse, sweetheart," Carisi said. "but we have to investigate your injuries. We might have a child abuse case."
Delaney sighed. "So I guess you're going to ask about my dad?"
Olivia nodded. "Honey," she spoke ever so slowly. "how long has your dad been abusing you?"
Delaney's eyes suddenly changed from relaxed, to a sad and painful glare. She felt her throat swell slightly as she held back the tears trying to come out of her eyes. She swallowed, trying to get her throat normal so she could talk. "Um... he never really... hurts me... we just have fights... verbal fights, that's all."
Once again, she was trying to hide her pain from them. She told herself that she would finally speak up, but when the time finally came, it was like her mind disconnected from her tounge. All three knew she wasn't telling the truth, but couldn't blame her. They could tell just by looking at her she was being abused, and they knew from the pattern of these situations, she was scared to say anything.
"Delaney," Olivia said softly and took Delaney's hand into her own. "You don't have to keep this a secret anymore. We're here to help you. We can make sure that nothing like this happens again."
Delaney glanced up at the ceiling and closed her eyes, a tiny few baby-tears slowly streaming out. Carisi noticed and felt a great deal of sympothy for her. He silently prayed that his sisters never had to go through anything like this, and prayed that little Jesse had a good enough family and that she would hopefully never go through that.
Delaney's bottom lip shook as she muffled out. "I... I can't." More tears came out as she began to whimper. "He'll figure out a way."
Carisi started to get worried. "He'll figure out a way to what, Delaney?"
Delaney took in a few deep breathes. "He'll figure out a way to break me. It may be physically, it may be emotionally, I don't know. I know one thing though... he does this to every woman he meets. He did it to his mom, he did it to his sister, he did it to my mom and countless other girls, and he's going to do it to me. Woman are just objects to him."
Olivia tried to shake the thought of the similarities between Richard Rosenberry, and William Lewis. She bit her lip once again to hold back the memories of her kidnapping, that was already three years ago. 'What I did to her...' His voice rang in her ears. 'You should be so lucky someone does that to you...' It was almost the same M.O. between the two. They abused woman, but this time, the psycho might not get away with it.
"He's not going to get away with this." Amanda's voice broke Olivia's thoughts. "We will make sure that he gets locked away, and he'll never hurt another woman again."
Delaney shrugged. "I hope so." She turned and looked out the window and sighed. "I have no where to go, though. So it's almost like he's still winning."
Carisi furrowed his brows. "You don't have any family that can take care of you? Like Grandparents or Aunts and Uncles?"
Delaney shook her head. "No, none that I know of besides my dads mom and sister, but they died when I was little, a car accident and suicide. I can't stay with my mom and I'm not sure where my brother is. I haven't seen him since he left. He left on his eighteenth birthday, and I never got to tell him goodbye."
"Did he know that your dad was abusing you?" Olivia asked.
She shrugged. "I guess so. I don't know why he didn't do anything about it." Olivia questioned herself on the loyality Delaney's brother had for her.
Amanda's phone buzzed as she opened it up to look at a text message. "Lieutenant, Jamie was just realeased from the hospital. She's on her way to the precinct now to do a line-up."
Olivia nodded her head. "Okay, Rollins, you and I will go. Carisi, do you mind staying here?" She asked him.
"Of course I don't mind." He said. He pointed over towards Delaney. "Is that alright with you?"
"That's alright with me." Delaney replied. She gave a crooked smile. "I like you, Detective Carisi."
Carisi gave a smile back. "Thanks," He was starting to feel more comfortable around her. She started to feel more like a friend, rather than another victim they worked with.
Before Olivia and Amanda left, Olivia turned to Carisi. "Also," She lowered her voice so Delaney wouldn't hear. "Call child services as soon as you can. She won't be in the hospital for much longer and she needs somewhere to go."
Carisi's smile faded as he felt his heart break. This poor girl had no where to go, and was most likely going into foster-care soon. He didn't want her to have to go through that, because it's rough being stuck in the system, feeling like nobody wants you. She already felt so much pain in her life already. He just wanted to save her.
He sighed heavily. "Copy that, Lieutenant." He replied with a heavy heart. Olivia noticed his sadness and patted his shoulder before leaving the hospital room. He turned back towards Delaney, who looked as if she was deep in thought.
He raised an eyebrow. "You alright, Delaney?" He asked concerned.
Delaney looked back at him. "Oh, yeah I'm fine." She replied almost cheerfully. "I was just... thinking."
He smiled at her. "Thinking about what?" He asked being nosy.
"I was just thinking... about the person who gave me blood, and how nice they must be to give up their own blood to save mine." She said. "The nurse told me the guy heard about me, and gave his blood up immediately to help me."
Carisi let out a slight chuckle, forgetting that Delaney didn't know it was him. "Oh yeah, he's a real nice guy."
"Really, you know him?" Delaney asked optimistic. Carisi could see the joy in her eyes.
He chuckled again. "Yeah, I've known him all my life. He's tall, handsome, charming." He bragged on himself. "He loves cannolis, he's a pretty good photographer, and he used to have the most awful mustache." Delaney started laughing at his descriptive of himself. "Oh, and I almost forgot. He's a Detective for the Special Victims Unit."
Delaney's laughter died down. "Wait, are you talking about yourself?" Carisi nodded as Delaney's mouth opened wide in shock. "You... you really donated your own blood to save me?" She swung her legs off the bed and gentally got on her feet to walk towards him, bringing her IV poll along with her.
"Yes, yes I did, sweet-girl." He rolled up his sleeve to show her the bandage wrapped around his arm.
Delaney smiled as she wrapped one of her arms around him into a sentimental hug. "Thank you so much for saving me, Detective Carisi."
He one of his hands on her shoulder and rubbed the back of her head with the other. "Of course, Kiddo. Anything to help you out." He said as he choked back his own tears.
Delaney looked up at him. "Also, you have a pretty big ego, don't you?" She asked in humor as they both laughed.
Olivia and Amanda got into Olivia's car, leaving behind the squad car for Carisi when the child services got there. Amanda couldn't stop thinking about Carisi. She wasn't sure what to feel. She loved him, and it was obvious that he loved her back, but they knew it would never work out. Olivia almost lost her job after the department found out about her and Tucker, and he didn't even work in the same precinct. In their case, BOTH of their jobs would be in jeopardy! To lose their jobs was just too big of a price to pay for just a simple crush.
'A simple crush,' Amanda thought. 'That's all this is, just a simple crush." She knew that it wasn't true, but she had to keep that mindset for the sake of her and Carisi's job. 'It's just a crush... it's just a crush...' She repeated in her head.
They pulled into the precinct as Amanda repeated the words in her head. 'It's just a crush... it's just a crush...' She was so pre-occupied in her thoughts, she didn't realize that she and Olivia had made it into the building and into the elevator.
"Hey, Amanda?" Olivia finally piped up a conversation, pulling Amanda out of her endless loop of thoughts.
Amanda looked over at Olivia, almost forgetting she was with her. "Oh, yeah Liv?"
Olivia crossed her arms. "You've been pretty quite since we left the hospital. Are you okay?" She asked in her more friendly tone instead of her professional tone.
"Oh!" Amanda exclaimed. She quickly thought up something to say. "I was just... thinking about this case. I mean, Delaney was a completly different person just now. I mean earlier when we spoke, she sounded like she was scared out of her mind. Now, she's relaxed and content."
"Well that's usually how it goes for people who have been abused." Olivia informed her young Detective. "They're perfectly fine around other people, but around their abusers they become a shell of fear." The elevator door opened up to reveal the office as the two ladies stepped off.
Jamie Young stood in front of the one-way glass window where line-ups take place. A police officer stood inside, waiting for the cue to let in the suspects. The red-head kept culped her hands together and kept them close to her chest. She took deep breathes to keep herself cool. She turned to Olivia, Amanda, Fin, and Barba who were standing behind her.
"I don't understand why I have to do this." She panted. "What if he sees me and get's triggered?"
"It's just a procedure, Jamie." Olivia explained to the worriedsome woman.
"And don't worry," Fin added. "It's one-way glass, so no ones going to be able to see you."
Jamie nodded her head understanding, but her body was still tense. The officer inside opened up the door as six men walked in holding up signs with their assigned number. Richard Rosenberrry stood as number four, and other men with the same similar features stood around him. Jamie looked around at the six men, all of them had the same brown hair that was turning gray, a stubbly beard, and stood around 5'10. They were all somewhat muscular and mid-aged. He eyes suddenly focused on Richard, who looked as if he would explode with anger.
"Number four," She whispered, almost in shame. She didn't want to even think about the awful mess she could be causing herself.
Olivia knocked on the window four times as the officer inside let the men out. "You did good, Jamie." Jamie shrugged at her response as the five adults started walking away from the window.
"We can set up a date to help prep you for trial, Miss Young." Barba said to Jamie. Jamie nodded back to the response, not really knowing what to say.
"Jamie? Jamie where are you?" A loud, angry voice bellowed through the office.
Amanda noticed that Jamie's voice became even more tense at the sound of the voice, just like how Delaney's did when she heard her father's voice.
"Oh crap," Jamie said under her breath, but didn't go unnoticed by the detectives or the District Attorney. "Sam, I'm over hear."
A tall, buff man with dirty blonde hair came around the corner, looking almost equally as angry as Richard did before. Jamie bit down on her top lip, almost drawing blood.
"Jamie, what's going on? I got a call from the hospital saying you were they this morning! Did you not bother to tell me?" Samuel asked, causing Jamie to brush back some of her hair.
"Sam, I'm sorry! My mind has been racing and I didn't think to call you." Jamie panted.
"You didn't think to call me?" Samuel questioned. "You're at the freaking police station and you didn't think to call me?"
Olivia stepped in front of Jamie. "Mr. Wooden, I'd be happy to explain what's going on to you in my office-"
"No thank you, sweetcheeks." Samuel stated rudely as Olivia's eyes widened. "I want Jamie to explain to me."
Jamie swollowed the bile raising in her thoat and walked in front of Olivia. "Sam, earlier today, I... I was raped."
Samuel raised an eyebrow. "Rape?" He said, acting like he was confused. "You said you were raped? By who?"
Jamie's voice shook as she tried to explain. "I...he... I didn't..."
It was Amanda's turn to step in. "Mr. Wooden we have reason to believe that Richard Rosenberry has raped Jamie."
This time Samuel raised both his eyebrows. "My best friend Richard Rosenberry?" He balled his fists together. "You're accusing my best friend of raping you?!" He yelled at Jamie. Fin and Barba walked behind Samuel to try and carry him out.
"I'm not accusing, I'm telling the truth! You're best friend is a rapist!" Jamie yelled back at him with a sudden boost of confidence.
"Why you little TRAMP!" Samuel raised his hand above Jamie as Jamie hid her face with her hands.
"Hey woah woah!" Fin said as he grabbed Samuel's hand. Olivia came around to help Fin out with Samuel as Amanda put her hand on Jamie's back.
"I think it's time for you to leave, Mr. Wooden." Olivia said as she and Fin took him away.
"You dirty little tramp! How could you cheat on me!" Samuel yelled back to Jamie. "You cheated on me with my best friend! You little tramp!"
Fin tightened his grip on his arm. "I think that's enough, Sam!" He said as they escorted him out.
Carisi pulled in front of the precinct after spending a couple hours at the hospital with Delaney. He pulled out his phone and looked threw the silly selfies Delaney had taken on his phone. One of her throwing up a peace sign, two duck lips, two sticking her tounge out, and one with just a simple smile. She also caught a couple of pictures of Carisi himself doing random things, like scratching his face or just staring at something random. Even a video of him rambling on about a funny memory of high school, Delaney behind the phone dying of laughter.
He smiled as he closed his phone out. Usually, he would have deleted the pictures (he was used to little kids taken photo's on his phone, after all he had a bunch of little cousins) but these one's were different. He didn't have the heart to delete the photo's Delaney had taken. She looked so happy in them. He hated to have to leave her once someone from child services came. He had given Delaney his number just in case she ever needed him for anything. For some reason, he just felt so connected to her. She was almost like a baby sister to him.
He got out of the car and got on the elevator inside the building. He leaned his head back against the wall and thought backed to having to leave Delaney...
Delaney was in a fit of laughter once again as Carisi was telling her about yet another funny story of the time he dropped a whole box of homemade cannolis at a family Christmas party, and no one talked to him for almost the intire party, but every one forgave him once he ordered in another delivery box of them.
"So I guess the lesson to that story is that don't drop the cannolis at your family Christmas party!" Delaney said during her laughter.
Carisi chuckled back, enjoying seeing Delaney so happy. She was a so much different when she felt she was safe. She almost acted normal. "Why yes," He said to her. "Never drop your cannolis, or you'll have five angry italian children attack you out of nowhere."
Delaney fell back into another laughing fit before hearing a knock at the door. Thinking it was a nurse, Carisi got out of his chair and went to open it. He was suprised when he didn't find a nurse dressed in scrubs, but instead found a tall, beach-blonde woman in a business outfit, holding a clipboard.
She smiled. "You must be Detective Carisi." She held out her hand. "I'm Christy Owens; I'm with child services."
Carisi shook her hand, sadened that he had to leave soon. "Yes, I'm Detective Carisi." He opened up the door and gestered inside, clearing his throat. "Won't you come in."
She walked inside as her high heels clicked on the concrete floor. Delaney raised herself up a bit to see who it was. She raised an eyebrow confused. "Um, hello?" She said trying to be polite.
"Hi Delaney, I'm Christy Owens. I work at child services." Christy said to the young girl.
"Are you going to take me away?" Delaney asked worried. She looked over at Carisi for hope.
"Well, once you get released from the hospital, I'm going to take you to a home for girls. You're gonna stay there until we can locate some of your families members." Christy tried to put delicatly.
Delaney became sad, something Carisi hated to see. "But, what if you can't find any of my family members?"
Christy's face became long. "Well, if we can't find any family, we have to put you in a foster home."
Delaney looked like she wanted to cry, and it broke Carisi's heart. "Oh," was all she could say.
Carisi turned to Christy. "Could we have a minute?" Christy nodded as she walked out of the room. He turned back to Delaney who looked forlorn. He sighed, and sat next to her on the bed. She looked up at him as he put his hand through her hair. "Everythings going to be okay, Laney." He had nicknamed her.
"Will it really be, though?" She sounded so discouraged as she looked down.
He put his hand under her chin and lefted her head up. "Yes, it will be. I promise you that."
She played with her thumbs to keep her brain occupied from crying. "Will I get to talk to you again?"
"Of course you will!" He felt bad after saying that, because he really wasn't sure if he would or not, but he smiled when he thought of something. He grabbed a pen and a notepad that was next to her bed. He scribbled something down as he spoke. "This is my number, and if you ever need me for anything; if it's an emergency or you just need someone to talk to, you call me and I'll be right there for you."
Delaney's face brightened up as he handed her the piece of paper. "Oh, thank you so much!" she exclaimed and pulled herself into Carisi's embrace. "Thank you so much, Sonny!"
He smiled the brightest he had that whole day, for that was the first time she called his Sonny. "You're so welcome, Laney. I'll see you soon, bye sweet-girl." He said as he slowly pulled out of their hug.
"Bye Sonny," She replied back. She held the piece of paper in her hand like it was the golden ticket. Carisi walked over to the door and opened it up. He turned back and looked at Delaney who was watching him leave. He waved at her as she waved back, and slowly closed the door, already missing her.
...His memory was interupted by the sound of the elevator doors opening. He walked out and went into his office and to his desk.
Amanda looked up at him as he sat down in his chair. "Hey, how's Delaney doing?"
He smiled. "She's doing great. She's so bubbly and sweet when she's not scared out of her mind." He pulled his phone out of his pocket and handed it to Amanda. "She also enjoyed taking selfies on my phone."
Amanda laughed as she scrolled through the photo's. "Oh man, she snapped you at the wrong time." Carisi rolled his eyes as she was still laughing. "You might be a good photographer, but you are NOT photo-gentic!"
"Alright I get it!" Carisi said as he took his phone back and put it back in his pocket. He switched subjects. "So how was everything here?"
"Oh just the usual." Amanda said sarcasticly. "Richard claims he didn't do anything, Buchanan agrees, we tried to get more out of him, he denies, we repeat. Jamie did a line-up and her boyfriend came in and claimed she cheated on him. That almost ended in a fight. Then the knife came back with Richard's fingerprints on it, so we atleast have him for that. You know, the normal."
Carisi nodded. "Well, sounds like you guys were busy." He said as he picked up some files on his desk and started reading through.
Amanda looked at him and smiled. She stared at all his beautiful features. His blue eyes, his jawline, his smile. The way he was so helpful and sweet made her heart melt. He looked up at her and winked, and mentally moaned. She winked back at him, and he slightly bit his lip in a sexy manor. She started feeling fuzzy inside, but the feeling quickly faded away as she remembered what she told herself earlier. 'It's just a crush!" She mentally scolded herself.
She quickly looked back at her computer, and Carisi looked back confused. He wasn't sure why she was sending him this sudden mixed signals. He thought before that she had liked him, but now he wasn't so sure. Of course he had told her he loved her earlier, and she said she loved him, but she could have just been saying that to be polite? He sighed, and looked back at his papers.
After what felt like hours of looking at files of the Rosenberry family, Olivia suddenly yawned and felt as if her whole body just drained all of her energy. With the day being so busy she was so occupied she barely even noticed she was tired. Now that everything was finally calming down, she could barely keep her eyes open.
She looked up at the clocked and saw that it was 7:43 p.m. It wasn't very late, but the day had been very busy after all. The officers from Rikers had finally come not to long ago to take Richard away until trial. She closed the folder in her hand containing and put it in one of the drawers of her desk. She stood up from her chair and grabbed her purse. Before she walked away from her desk, she looked at a picture of Noah and picked it up. She thought about little and innocent he was, and she didn't understand how a parent could ever harm their children in any way. Today's events being a great example.
She set the picture back down and walked out of her office, shutting the lights off on her way out. Her Detectives glaced up when they noticed her walking out.
"Leaving so soon, Lieutenant?" Carisi said, half-jokingly.
Olivia nodded. "Yes, and I want everyone else to leave as well."
Amanda raised an eyebrow. "Are you sure, Lieutenant?" She pointed at Carisi. "Carisi and I are still going through some files and we have quite a bit left."
"Yes I'm sure." Olivia replied. "After today's events, I want everyone to go home. Show love you your families." She looked at Amanda. "Go home and take care of that little girl." Amanda smiled at her response. Olivia looked at Carisi. "Call your sister and check up on your niece." Carisi nodded as she looked at Fin. "Go see your son, Fin. Check on your future grandchild."
"Copy that, Liv." Fin said shortly. After being friends with her for so long, he never could get used to saying 'Sergeant' or 'Lieutenant', so even now he still calls her Liv.
Olivia smiled at her Detectives. "After seeing what's been going on with the Rosenberry family for so long, it blossomed to me how important family is. So to everyone, go home, talk to your families, and get some rest. We'll start this all back up in the morning."
The Detectives nodded as Olivia started to walk towards the elevator. Carisi stood up from his chair. "Let me walk you out, Lieutenant."
"Oh no no, it's fine." Olivia protested. "You don't have to do that. Thank you anyway, though." Carisi nodded as the elevator doors closed. Olivia leaned her head back against the wall, and thought about seeing Noah and finally getting some shut eye.
"Uh huh. Okay that's really good." Carisi said to his sister over the phone. He had taken Olivia's advice and called his sister to check up on her and her baby, and he guessed his brother in law too. "Well I hope everything's going well. I'll be praying for you, Bella." He suddenly heard the sound of a crying baby in the background. "I'll let you take care of that. Bye sister." With that, he hung up the phone.
After he hung up, he sat down on Amanda's couch in the living room. Amanda had decided to invite him over to he could spend some time with Jesse, but she was getting very cranky and Amanda decided to try and put her down for bed. Carisi offered to help, but Amanda declined, telling him that trying to get Jesse to bed was a tough challange.
He suddenly heard another loud cry coming from a baby, this time obviously being Jesse. Amanda came out of the nursery, carrying a red-faced, crying eight month old Jesse in her arms. Jesse had her tiny fingers in her mouth, rubbing her gums. Amanda had the look of frustation dancing all across her face.
"Okay, I give up. Will you please help me?" Amanda begged Carisi.
Carisi stood up from the couch and walked over to Amanda and Jesse. "Okay, come here little Jesse." He said as he took Jesse into his own arms. The wailing baby continued to cry as Carisi starting to rock her. He rubbed the back of her head to try and sooth her, but she just continued to cry. "Oh, what's wrong sweetheart?" He said as he noticed something different. He took her fingers out of her mouth and looked at her gums.
"What is it?" Amanda asked looking at her gums as well.
"It looks like she's getting in another tooth." He said as he looked at the tiny bud of a tooth poking up through he gums. This was her second tooth she had gotten this month.
"I'll go get one of her teething rings." Amanda said as she went over to the freezer.
"Are you getting another tooth, Jesse?" Carisi asked in a baby-voice to try and sooth the infant.
Amanda gentally put the theething ring on Jesse's gums. She whimpered a bit at the coldness, but then stopped crying. Amanda sighed in relief, almost getting a headache at her daughters loud crying. Carisi continued to rock little Jesse until she finally drifted off into sleep with the ring still in her mouth.
"Don't worry, I'll go put her in her crib." Carisi said as he walked into Jesse's nursery. He pulled back the covers in Jesse's crib and placed her in her bed. He pulled he covers back up to her to keep her warm during her sleep. He took a moment to gaze at the little girl sleeping soundly. After everything that happened today, it was nice to finally see some innocence in someone. He leaned in and gave a tiny kiss to Jesse fuzzy blonde head. Jesse responded with a tiny smile in her sleep, and it melted Carisi's heart. "Goodnight little Jesse. I love you more than you could ever imagine."
He gentally crept out of Jesse's room and closed the door. He walked into the living room where Amanda was sitting on the couch. He sat down next to her as she leaned her head on his shoulder.
"Thanks so much for helping me get her to sleep." Amanda thanked him.
"Oh, it's no problem." Carisi replied to Amanda. "You know I really love that little girl." He wrapped his arm around Amanda's shoudler and whispered in her ear. "I love both my girls a lot."
Amanda felt her heart start to beat fast. Carisi placed another kiss on top of her head as she moaned. Her body started to feel warm inside. She wanted so desperately with everything in her body to love him. 'It's just a crush.' She thought to herself once again.
She sat upright and cleared her throat. "Hey, do you want a drink?" She asked Carisi as she got up from the couch.
"Um, sure. What do you have?" Carisi asked.
Amanda walked back over to the frigde and opened it up. She looked around for a moment before she found a bottle. "I have some red wine." She replied to him.
"Hey, that sounds good." Carisi said. Amanda got out two wine glasses and poured the liquid into the two glasses. She carried them over to the couch and gave one to him.
"Here you go." She said and handed him a glass.
"Thanks," Carisi replied and took a sip.
Amanda sat back down next to him and sip her glass. They sat in silence for a while, drinking their wine. Amanda looked over and noticed that Carisi had just finished his glass.
"Here, I'll get you so more." Amanda said as she attempted to get up.
Carisi stopped her. "No thanks, I'm good."
Amanda sat back down awkwardly. 'It's just a crush.' She mentally told herself for the umptenth time.
"So," Carisi said awkwardly. "What'd you wanna talk about?" Amanda shrugged and looked down. Carisi noticed and placed a hand on her leg. "Hey, are you okay?" Amanda looked up at him and felt her heart explode. His touch made her want to go insane.
They both looked at eachother for a moment, interlocking their fingers together. They came in together closer and closer until their lips met eachother in a soft, warm kiss. 'It's not a crush.' Amanda finally thought. She was in love with him, and he was in love with her.
They both explored eachothers lips with passion and desperation. Carisi pulled Amanda closer into his presence as they fell back onto the couch, lips still locked together. Amanda put her hands on the collar of his shirt, and slowly made her way down his shirt, unbuttoning his shirt. He didn't seem to mind, as he put his hands on her back, slowly rubbing up and down, causing their make-out session to reach intense levels.
Amanda woke up the next morning in bed, a familiar warmth lying with her. Her ears picked up the sound of a heartbeat. She picked her head up off of Carisi's chest, who was still fast asleep. She smiled at his light snoring. She put her palm against his cheek and kissed him. He opened his bright, baby blue eyes to the sight of his blonde lover.
"Hello my love." He said in a romantic, yet gullible voice, causing Amanda to giggle.
"Hello yourself, my love." Amanda replied back in the same voice as Carisi. He giggled as well. They both interlocked in a kiss before Amanda rested her head back on Carisi's chest. She finally decided not to fight her love anymore. Instead, she would embrace it. She was in love with Sonny Carisi.
Well, that escalated quickly! Who guessed that Amanda and Sonny would make love? I DID! (obviously, I'm the author) Also, I'm sorry if the love scene was kind of rushed. I haven't written a lot of love scenes before, and I was trying to make it seem fast and intense and passionate. So I hope you all enjoyed! I'll see you guys after I get back from vacation!
~PrettyFlower99